Uitkijkende naar een tijd dat al de miserie tot de herinnering zal horen. – Remembrances for now:Plaque situated roughly in the middle of where the lager stood during the Battle of Blood River with the Vow taken by the Voortrekkers inscribed on it (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photograph by Tsafrir Abayov for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon On The Logos Academic Blog Craig A. Evans writes about some impressive advances in biblical archaeology The last quarter-century has seen some impressive advances in biblical archaeology, especially relating to the time that we call the First Temple period (roughly 1000–600 BCE) and the time […]

In Heb. 13: 13-16, the Apostle speaks of us going forth to Jesus without the camp, to bear his reproach. Does this mean that we are to consider ourselves and our sacrifices (Rom. 12: 1) as sin offerings, as it were the goat following the bullock? It cannot mean this, for the goat sacrifice has […]

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Always be willing to see your own weaknesses and strengths and know when to seek help. Always be willing, hoping, to have your argument proved false, but don’t give up. Reconsider, redesign, and rediscover. ~Karen Langton, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Birmingham

Originally posted on The Muslim Times: February 6, 2017 by yalibnan ? Whatdoes Donald Trump want for America? His supporters don’t know. His party doesn’t know. Even he doesn’t know. If there is a political vision underlying Trumpism, however, the person to ask is not Trump. It’s his éminence grise, Stephen K. Bannon, the chief…

Originally posted on The Muslim Times: The enemy for Bannon is secularism. This, he believes, is responsible for progressively diluting pure Christian ideals with all sorts of modern and postmodern ideologies Russell Razzaque @mindfulrussell At the time of Trump’s unexpected election victory, there was much speculation over who would really run the US Government, given the…

In the United States we not only see that religious groups become endangered. Also the female person seems to be placed in a secondary role. We see the growing tendency by several American citizens to consider the female being as second-class citizen whose place belongs in the kitchen and by her kids. the woman according […]

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Originally posted on logging entries in my life: As an American, I am growing ever more worried about my own countrymen. So many are adamant about their “gun rights”, but refuse to actually educate themselves (because they have been brainwashed to believe that it isn’t necessary) about the true reason for the Second Amendment. As…

Originally posted on worldgeochat: Dear Mr. President, I have so many thoughts right now, but I’ll try to keep this simple for you. My school has students from 38 nations. It is hard enough for them to adjust to life in a new country as an adolescent without someone calling their homeland a “shithole country.”…

Mostly the articles placed on this and our other platforms are not so much placed to open a debate, or better said are no part of a “forum”. that does not mean we do not like to receive reactions like “likes” or some comments. You can imagine that it takes time to create a post […]

An Orthodox Christian got confronted by a friend who recently posted a link to an article on anti-Semitism which claimed that anti-Semitism of the left was more dangerous than anti-Semitism of the right. He found the article biased and tendentious for several reasons and writes For one thing, the author seemed to characterise “the Left” […]

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